Félix Streicher will defend his PhD thesis: The Forgotten Occupation: Politics, Everyday Life, and Gender in the Luxembourg Occupation Zone in Germany, 1945–55, on 11 September 2025, at 13:00 in the Aula of Maastricht University. 

Donderdag 18 september 2025 zal Antia Wiersma om 14.30 uur aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen haar proefschrift Hartstochtelijk. partijloos, feministe. Dr. W.H. Posthumus-van der Goot (1897-1989) verdedigen.

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• Quinten Somsen will defend his thesis Asserting Princely Power in Hesse-Kassel and the Dutch Republic on June 11, 2.30 PM, at Leiden University.
• On June 12 Kerrewin van Blanken will defend his dissertation ‘Diplomatic Propaganda in the Dutch Republic and France, 1609-1674‘ at the University of Amsterdam, 11.00 AM.
• Op woensdag 18 juni om 11:30 uur verdedigt OPG-alumnus Dirk Alkemade zijn proefschrift ‘Radicale democratie. Pieter Vreede (1750-1837) en de Nederlandse Revolutie’ aan de Universiteit Leiden.
• Floris van Berckel Smit zal op maandag 30 juni om 11.45 uur zijn proefschrift New Public Management aan de universiteit? Veelvormige organisatieveranderingen aan Nederlandse en Vlaamse universiteiten, 1970-2010 in het auditorium van de VU verdedigen.

Should political historians also be media historians? If so, which historiographical debates should they be aware of? And how should they go about analyzing audiovisual media sources? On March 28^th  at the Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision (Beeld en Geluid, B&G) in Hilversum, a group of ReMA-students and PhD-candidates of the Research School for Political History (RSPH) discussed these and other questions and consequently reflected on the ways in which audiovisual media sources could be useful for their own research.